Baarhundertzeit: международная конференция, посвящённая 100-летнему юбилею доктора Йоханнеса Баaра

Professor of Linguistics at the Sankt-Petersburg State University since 1987, graduated from the Department of Linguistics of Leningrad State University in 1976. In 1983 got her PhD in the same University. On several occasions since 1991 she was a visiting professor in the Slavic Department of Duke University (USA). Since 1990 she took part in the annual I International seminar of Russian Language in Timmendorfer Strand (Germany). For several years she was an invited professor at the Intensive Russian Language Program in Vienna (Austria). The area of scholarly interests: stylistics, lexicology, phraseology, and literary criticism. She is the author of over ninety published works.

Doctor of philology and professor at the department of the Slavic philology, Sankt-Petersburg State University, professor emeritus, doctor honoris causa at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Germany); the honour professor at the Olomouc University (Czech Republic) and the president of the Phraseological Commission by the International Committee of Slavists. He is the author of 1237 publications on Slavic, Russian and comparative studies, among them is more then 76 books (the monographs and vocabularies). The main directions of his scientific and pedagogic activities are Slavic studies (especially Russian, Ukrainian, and Bohemian), ethnolinguistics, comparative linguistics and Slavic dialectology, lexicography and lexicology, phraseology, and onomastics. He is a member of the editorial board of 18
international Slavic journals.